|
| |
Aerobic Activity Burns Fat
Aerobic activity is any exercise that helps you use oxygen more efficiently. It gets your heart pumping faster, makes you sweat and quickens your breath. When you raise your heart rate your body begins to burn stored carbohydrates and fatty acids for ...
Effective Workout Tip - Combine Strength Training and Cardio Training
Why combining strength and cardio training is beneficial to you. One of the best ways to shape up and stay in shape is to combine strength training with cardio training. Strength training such as weights and resistance bands will help you firm up ...
Tips On Fast Weight Loss For Special Occasions
If you are like me, you have probably been through all this before, the family wedding is coming up next month and you can't seem to fit into that suit or dress because you have put on too much weight. So you must lose at least ten or more pounds quickly. ...
|
|
|
| |
But there are new studies out that show weight training to be better at raising your resting metabolic rate, which is the rate at which you burn calories at rest. This may mean that the best way to burn off unwanted fat is by building muscle in the gym.
There is one requirement for weight training to be effective at raising the metabolism. The weight lifting must be very intense to produce a drastic increase in resting metabolic rate.
Lifting light weights or exercising for too short a time can diminish the results. You need to do 3 to 4 sets per exercise and do an average of 6 to 8 reps for each.
This ensures that each major muscle group is trained intensely. In the studies, it was shown that the test subjects resting metabolic rate was still elevated, on average 21%, even 24 hours after the workout.
It appears weight training can release hormones like growth hormone and norepinephrine that assist in the fat burning process.
Also, removing the lactic acids that's built up through heavy weight training also requires calorie expenditure.
Finally, the muscle building process of repairing damaged muscle tissue caused by weight lifting can also burn more calories.
Building muscle itself will increase resting metabolic rate, since muscle tissue burns far more calories at rest than fat.
So the more lean muscle mass you have, the higher the resting metabolism. That's why building muscle through weight training is also a way to lose unwanted body fat.
The best way to lose fat is to combine cardio with weight training, to create a synergistic effect in which both work together to burn calories.
So if you're currently trying to lose some fat, try to focus on building muscle as well, through weight training, so you can raise your metabolism and burn more calories at rest.
About the author:
Personal trainer and fitness author Shawn Lebrun will show you, step by step, how to build more muscle and lose more fat in the least amount of time possible. Check out Shawn Lebrun Fitness.com to learn more
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 Wii Fit promising tool for all ages - HULIQ.com
I think there is a great potential to develop ways to promote physical activity through technology," said David Dzewaltowski, professor and head of the department of kinesiology at K-State and director of the university's Community Health Institute ...
Clarksville Parks offers Saturday programs - Louisville Courier-Journal
"Optimist Tri-Star Basketball Competition," 3-5 p.m. Saturday at Clarksville Middle School, 101 Ettels Lane. The program is for boys and girls ages 8 through 13. Registration will begin at 2:30. Participants will compete in free-throw shooting ...
Aerobics classes offered in East Fishkill - Poughkeepsie Journal
HOPEWELL JUNCTION - The East Fishkill Recreation Department will offer two co-ed aerobics classes at the community center. On Mondays at 6 p.m., from Jan. 5 to March 9, cardio and kick-box aerobics classes will be held. The noncontact workout uses ...
Mon Valley News Briefs - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Community College of Allegheny County will offer two morning fitness classes to people age 55 and older beginning Jan. 21. The 55-plus aerobic and personal conditioning classes will both meet Monday and Wednesday mornings at CCAC South Campus in West ...
YMCA offers fitness preview - Commercial News
DANVILLE — Just in time to help people turn their New Year’s resolutions into action, the Danville Family YMCA will offer a free preview Saturday of its fitness classes. Called “The Fitness Blast,” this three-hour event will demonstrate the ...
|
